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Oh, wtf.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.

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submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Absolutely devastating and affecting a lot of my colleagues here at @scripps.edu who dedicated their whole careers to coming up with a vaccine for HIV. Which, btw, outside HIV, has led to a whole field of much better vaccines and vaccine platforms.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

I think letting a drug-addled lunatic and his crew of sociopathic incels randomly rip apart government agencies with no oversight may not have been as terrific an idea as it seemed

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

Our friend the Crested Toad is a small toad who lives in lowland rainforests on the Malay Peninsula and in Borneo, Sumatra, and the Natuna Islands! They are also known as the Malayan Dwarf Toad! (photo by Bob Zakaria)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

repeat after me, an author’s royalties are not a publisher’s fuck around and find out petty cash fund

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I would like to outsource my sleep to my dog. She is so much better at it than I am.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

we desperately need fans to: A. know that AI localization will absolutely ruin their favorite manga, anime, games, and books B. fan outrage over AI use is one of the best and only ways we can fight back. most loc professionals are freelance. we're not union. we have no power. Fans must speak up.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

I made a new sticker for TCAF. No reason.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

A reminder that "just following orders" is not a legal defense.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

a friend #MerMay

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Maybe we should just turn the Internet off.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Your reminder that someone can appear to be at the top (of the world, of their field, etc) and feel rather dramatically differently. I'm glad Jim worked through his issues, is still here with us and is still writing the books so many people love. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/b...

submitted 14 days ago • 72 comments

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

submitted 15 days ago • 263 comments

Sometimes, even Caturday is hard

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

You know what to do

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Still not convinced irises are real

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, to the person who just scraped AO3 AGAIN--go fuck yourself. Fuck everyone who uses genAI and churns out soulless slop after feeding what was created through love, blood, and tears into a machine and claiming whatever it spits out as your own. I found all my fics on this last scrape--

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Another Red-legged Honeycreeper, this time he's creeping some honey at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #birds #costarica #nature

submitted 33 days ago • 45 comments

This is everything to me

submitted 36 days ago • 39 comments

A gentleman

submitted 35 days ago • 62 comments

At this point "Abolish ICE and prosecute every officer who helped with deportations" is the moderate path

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

“You have the right not to be kidnapped and sold into a slave prison” is a winning issue, folks

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

This Vir quote from Bab5 is a whole mood right now. Not thinking of anyone in particular, of course.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Ben Franklin on vaccination. (via Mic: www.mic.com/articles/109...)

submitted 44 days ago • 14 comments

Destroying the Cornerstone of America: This 1932 cartoon expressed the anger many Americans felt toward indiscriminate cost-cutting in public education.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Tiny cat, so starving, never fed

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

For @lasrina.bsky.social and anyone else who likes to keep up with Bucky's latest hairstyle. This season's style is scruffy emo, a distinct improvement over anime Bucky (IMO)

Oh, wtf.

My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.

Absolutely devastating and affecting a lot of my colleagues here at @scripps.edu who dedicated their whole careers to coming up with a vaccine for HIV. Which, btw, outside HIV, has led to a whole field of much better vaccines and vaccine platforms.

I think letting a drug-addled lunatic and his crew of sociopathic incels randomly rip apart government agencies with no oversight may not have been as terrific an idea as it seemed

Our friend the Crested Toad is a small toad who lives in lowland rainforests on the Malay Peninsula and in Borneo, Sumatra, and the Natuna Islands! They are also known as the Malayan Dwarf Toad! (photo by Bob Zakaria)

repeat after me, an author’s royalties are not a publisher’s fuck around and find out petty cash fund

I would like to outsource my sleep to my dog. She is so much better at it than I am.

we desperately need fans to: A. know that AI localization will absolutely ruin their favorite manga, anime, games, and books B. fan outrage over AI use is one of the best and only ways we can fight back. most loc professionals are freelance. we're not union. we have no power. Fans must speak up.

I made a new sticker for TCAF. No reason.

A reminder that "just following orders" is not a legal defense.

a friend #MerMay

Maybe we should just turn the Internet off.

Your reminder that someone can appear to be at the top (of the world, of their field, etc) and feel rather dramatically differently. I'm glad Jim worked through his issues, is still here with us and is still writing the books so many people love. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/b...

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

Sometimes, even Caturday is hard

You know what to do

Still not convinced irises are real

Hey, to the person who just scraped AO3 AGAIN--go fuck yourself. Fuck everyone who uses genAI and churns out soulless slop after feeding what was created through love, blood, and tears into a machine and claiming whatever it spits out as your own. I found all my fics on this last scrape--

through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us

Another Red-legged Honeycreeper, this time he's creeping some honey at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #birds #costarica #nature

This is everything to me

A gentleman

At this point "Abolish ICE and prosecute every officer who helped with deportations" is the moderate path

“You have the right not to be kidnapped and sold into a slave prison” is a winning issue, folks

This Vir quote from Bab5 is a whole mood right now. Not thinking of anyone in particular, of course.

Ben Franklin on vaccination. (via Mic: www.mic.com/articles/109...)

Destroying the Cornerstone of America: This 1932 cartoon expressed the anger many Americans felt toward indiscriminate cost-cutting in public education.

Tiny cat, so starving, never fed

For @lasrina.bsky.social and anyone else who likes to keep up with Bucky's latest hairstyle. This season's style is scruffy emo, a distinct improvement over anime Bucky (IMO)

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I felt dreadfully.